During my second visit to India I met a lady who was part of a House Church in Hyderabad. She invited us into her home and was very eager to share her testimony. I don’t remember if there was some sort of crisis in her life at that time of her conversion. I do remember […]

Trouble in this life is merely a symptom of being alive on the planet Earth. There is however, an ancient memory in the hearts of humans around the world that things were once better than they are now. There is also a desire in our hearts for that perfection and bliss that existed in the […]

There was a time when I understood the Kingdom of God to be the place where Christians go when they die. Therefor it was very exciting moment when as a young Christian I realized that it had much more to do with life on this earth than I had previously thought. This is how it […]

Last time I shared how I disagree with the methods and teachings of some prosperity and “word of faith” preachers today. That is not to say that everything they teach about faith and healing is wrong. In fact, I have been greatly encouraged by their emphasis on aspects of the New Testament that are often […]

As Jesus passed by, He saw a man blind from birth. And His disciples asked Him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he would be born blind?” Jesus answered, “{It was} neither {that} this man sinned, nor his parents; but {it was}so that the works of God might be displayed in […]

Sunday, September first, 2013 marks a new phase in this ministry. It is the beginning of my official retirement from my profession as a painting contractor in the Central Ohio area. For the past several years I have been preparing for this time in which I will have much more time to devote to writing, […]

Most modern atheists and materialists assume that faith in the Biblical Jesus Christ is basically irrational, and that their view of reality is purely objective and reasonable. At the same time we find many of them who accept as fact, fantastic theories that actually have not been proven with hard evidence! Christians themselves often […]

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The Big Picture In a previous lesson we discussed the fact that anything we read, whether a newspaper, magazine, math textbook, or novel, each will be approached in a way suitable to its purpose, and our purpose for reading it. Then we pointed out that different literary forms are found in the Bible and […]

Our God is certainly a miracle working God. This is one fact that all Christians should treasure. Here is one area where I believe prosperity and faith preachers and teachers have done us a service. Many have been greatly inspired by their stories and exhortations to believe in our God with Whom all things […]

Today’s Bible readers have many advantages that were not available to previous generations. Dictionaries, concordances, encyclopedias of Biblical information abound, not to mention the many modern translations which we have available to us. For this reason many of you are already familiar with the definition of the word we will be discussing in this article. […]

Early in the 20th Century, the rallying cry for many of the world’s oppressed masses, was “Workers of the World, Unite!” Sadly, the revolution that followed led to another kind of oppression in the form of communist dictatorships in many countries. The title of this commentary is a rallying cry against a different kind […]

In Europe during the early 1500’s, a German monk named Martin Luther uncovered a message that soon began to change the face of Christianity. Since then his teachings concerning the grace of God have been at the very heart of the Protestant church. We know of course, that these teachings were not originally his. He […]